When I was a school bus driver, I used to use the threat of violence from older kids to whip younger kids into shape all the time. You have no idea how effective a behavior modification strategy the following is: "Gee, Justin - it sure would be a shame if Rob decided to MAKE you knock it off while I looked the other way for the next ten minutes, wouldn't it?" The threat alone is usually more than enough to fix the problem.

Sometimes kids are just little shiats, and since there's so little school authorities are allowed to do anymore to knock kids back into line, it only makes sense they'd farm it out to other kids. Sometimes you gotta be a pragmatist.

Sounds like this teacher took it too far, is all. A bit of a discreet thumpin' might do some good, but a wholesale beatdown is probably over the top.

Middle school is the problem. We need to restructure those four years. I would like to take a cohort of twenty fifth graders and for four years rotate them through four specific areas of training: archery, mountaineering, sailing, and farming. Zero classrooms for four years. Then drop them off at the local high school and track their progress. I bet they would crush it.

August11:Middle school is the problem. We need to restructure those four years. I would like to take a cohort of twenty fifth graders and for four years rotate them through four specific areas of training: archery, mountaineering, sailing, and farming. Zero classrooms for four years. Then drop them off at the local high school and track their progress. I bet they would crush it.

What is best in life? Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the cheerleaders.

A lot of people who never left school between education and employemnt also never left it institutionally or socially. They're still the chubby kid in the front of the class and they see the world as they did all those years ago. And that's the reason you noticed that some of your teachers were completely full of sh*t, but couldon't quite figure out why.

Pumpernickel bread:football coaches order player on player "discipline" all the time, why can't teachers?

"We're not the team...we're the equipment! *They're* the team (points at executives)!""What you have just witnessed is one player using mental intimidation to psych out another.""Now *that's* concentration, Elliot!""You can take your scholarship and shove it up your ass with a red hot poker!""You wanna have a good time, well go ahead & laugh it up! But you'll do it on somebody else's football team!""When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Middle school is a terrible time for people. I had to prepare my autistic mentee for middle school through victim avoidance training. You literally help them survive the terrible with the same classes they offer prisoners.

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of schools, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

Considering my own son has had dealings with her a time or two, I'm not surprised at this...

Her answer, when my son was being bullied by a much bigger kid was "Well, he doesn't like anyone"... Like that made it all better, since the kid was notorious for bullying a lot of kids since he'd been held back a few years, so he was quite a bit bigger than his classmates and they refused to do anything to the kid...